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Poverty, Politics and Aid: is a reframing of global poverty approaching?

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This paper argues that a significant reframing of global poverty is likely to emerge in the next decade as world poverty becomes less about the transfer of aid and more about domestic distribution and thus domestic politics. This proposition is based on a discussion of the shift of much of global poverty towards middle-income countries. There are questions arising related to how countries are classified and to administrative capacities, as well as to domestic political economy, but it is argued that many of the world’s extreme poor already live in countries where the total cost of ending extreme and even moderate poverty is not prohibitively high as a percentage of gdp. By 2020, even on fairly conservative estimates, most of world poverty may be in countries that do have the domestic financial resources to end at least extreme poverty; this could imply a reframing of global poverty.

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  • Andy Sumner, 2013. "Poverty, Politics and Aid: is a reframing of global poverty approaching?," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(3), pages 357-377.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:34:y:2013:i:3:p:357-377
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2013.784593
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    1. Horn, Philipp & Grugel, Jean, 2018. "The SDGs in middle-income countries: Setting or serving domestic development agendas? Evidence from Ecuador," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 109(C), pages 73-84.
    2. Woojin Jung, 2022. "The Discrepancy Between Two Approaches to Global Poverty: What Does it Reveal?," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 162(3), pages 1313-1344, August.
    3. Gulrajani, Nilima, 2017. "Bilateral Donors and the Age of the National Interest: What Prospects for Challenge by Development Agencies?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 375-389.
    4. Natarajan, Nithya & Newsham, Andrew & Rigg, Jonathan & Suhardiman, Diana, 2022. "A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).

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